Ricky Romain
 
 
Artist’s Statement
 
 
Scared Memory Figures
 
 
Exiled memories of lost generations
 
 
Interrogation
 
 
In Memory of Daniel Pearl
 
 
In the Absence of Justice
 
 
The Dweller
 
 
‘Without Power Without Voice’ (number two)
 
 
Fast Track Family
 
 
‘Container Series’
 
 
‘Container Series’
 
 
Falling
 
 
Four Brothers
 
 
Faceless Group
 
 
Group held and bound
 
 
'Scapegoats'
 
 
'Protecting'-Newsreel Series
 
 
'Whispering'-Newsreel series
 
 
'Soft Hands'- Newsreel series
 
 
'Scapegoats' in the Newsreel Series
 
 
A Passing Resemblance in the Midst of Conflict
 
 
In Shadow
 
 
Family Group (part of 'InThe Absense of Justice Series)
 
 
'Traveling Pieces'
 
 
'Traveling Pieces' No 2
 
 
'Traveling Pieces' No 3
 
 
'Traveling Pieces' No.4
 
 
'Traveling Pieces' No.5
 
 
Small Heads
 
 
A Poem For Franta Bass
 
 
Visas and Boarderlines
 
 
The Conscious and Unconscious Embrace
 
 
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions 1977-2008
 
 
Awards
 
 
Exhibition 1st - 26th September 2008
Galerie des Arts. Council of Europe. Strasbourg.
 
 

Awards

Joint Exhibitions

2008 The Council of Europe,Strasbourg. (Betty Hanns,sculptor, Jeremine Zirinheld,painter.)
2005 Standard Class, White Space Gallery (Margarita Kern)
2003 The Study Gallery, Poole (Heather Fallows, poetry)
1997 Beldham Gallery, Brunel University, Uxbridge (Rod Hill, painter)
1998 Byron Gallery, Taunton (Lynette Ravencroft, photographer)

Awards

1998 Artist in Residence, 'The Human Condition & Contemporary Issues' (D.A.I.S.I.)
Beaford, North Devon
1991 Exhibition Grant, Brewhouse Gallery (South West Arts)
1990 Exhibition Grant, Plough Arts
1984 Artist In Residence, Crispin School, Somerset (South West Arts)
1982 Major Purchase Award (South West Arts)
1981 South West Arts Grant

Miscellaneous

2006/7 Work used by BID ( Bail for Immigration Detainees) for cover of annual reports.
2005 Featured on front cover for launch of ‘Art in Devon Magazine’
2003 Artist in residence. Priory School, Exeter. Creating images with students for the new EDF Energy Building in Exeter with Arts & Business and D.A.I.S.I.
2003 Artist in residence. Woodroffe School, Lyme Regis. Woodland Project.
2002 ‘Outside’. Working with a group of Eastern European artists and musicians who were seeking asylum. Exhibition of resulting collaboration at Weymouth Arts Centre. Funded by The Home Office.
2000 Year of the Artist Calendar. Lottery funded workshops culminating in exhibition at Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter 2001
2000 Artist in Residence, Burton Art Gallery & Museum, Bideford
1998 Community Artist, Axminster Community Arts Project
1994 Artwork Bound, Exhibition, Exeter Museum. Work resulting from collaboration, between students and four artists.
1993 Axminster Festival - working with local primary & comprehensive schools creating banners
1992 Commissioned by East Devon Education Authority to design and paint, with a group of Exeter children, an inter- faith mural to be linked with the launch of the new National Religion Education Curriculum
1992 Axminster Festival - working with local primary and secondary schools to create banners
1990 Paintings used to illustrate Channel 4 documentary ‘A Sense of Belonging’. This examined British Jewish Identity and, with others, looked at the artist's own spiritual journey through Judaism. The series was screened at the National Film Theatre in 1990 and was broadcast in June and July 1991.
1987 Painting chosen to feature along with works of Picasso, Chagall & Dali to illustrate the book 'The Bible in 20th Century Art', published by Pagoda Art Books.

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